Please follow the forum rules.Everyone may post, solve and discuss puzzles in this thread.When posting puzzles, use the code tags to enclose the puzzle(if possible).When solving puzzles, quote the original puzzle/problem and enclose your answer in the code tags(if possible).You may give hints or clues on your puzzles at any time; preferably quote the original puzzle.If your puzzle is left unsolved for more than a week, please post the solution. Unless if they still want to attempt solving it.If someone attempts to answer your puzzle, check their answer/solution by saying CORRECT or wrong.Multiple puzzles may be open for solving at any time.When correcting puzzles, please add the word 'Corrections:' then link/add the corrections to the original post.There aren't any limits in the type of puzzles used, like text, images, etc. Just try to avoid overly complicated or impossible puzzles.These guidelines will be helpful when having multiple puzzles at a time.

I would like to welcome all of you to the cipher cafe. I hope that you will have lots of fun in this thread. XD

Hey, in the National Puzzlers' League, you'd have to put an asterisk before each instance of Q to indicate that it's a letter that's capitalized due to being a proper noun, a proper adjective, or the like. This means that McMurry might appear as *ND*NVSSZ. I also think you'd have to mark *F*L as "not MW", because it's not an entry in Merriam-Webster's. The National Puzzlers' League has standards to keep things fair for the solver; it's good to know that a cryptogram is stumping you because it's hard and not because it contains made-up things that aren't in the dictionary.

As an example of how these work, here's a cryptogram I submitted to the National Puzzlers' League a few months ago. Prove to me that furries aren't all dumb, and solve it!

I would like to welcome all of you to the cipher cafe. I hope that you will have lots of fun in this thread. XD

Yes, that is correct. It was meant to be as simple as possible.

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Hey, in the National Puzzlers' League, you'd have to put an asterisk before each instance of Q to indicate that it's a letter that's capitalized due to being a proper noun, a proper adjective, or the like. This means that McMurry might appear as *ND*NVSSZ. I also think you'd have to mark *F*L as "not MW", because it's not an entry in Merriam-Webster's. The National Puzzlers' League has standards to keep things fair for the solver; it's good to know that a cryptogram is stumping you because it's hard and not because it contains made-up things that aren't in the dictionary.

Although fairness is important in this 'game', we're not really aiming to have a perfect, international grade 'game'. We're just a bunch of people, randomly sending each other ciphers and codes while playing MvM (we were requested to make a separate thread for this, instead of doing it in MvM); and nothing close to a guild of code-makers and code-breakers. They are good suggestions, but I think it would be best to leave it to the code-maker whether they want to follow those conventions or not.

mathgrant Wrote:

http://scottbryce.com/cryptograms/

And, your link over there doesn't even use the conventions. XD

mathgrant Wrote:

Prove to me that furries aren't all dumb, and solve it!

That's quite an unfair generalization. Solving it doesn't imply anything of my level of intelligence, nor does it imply anybody else's level of intelligence. It's like telling someone that by default, all Texans love Nintendo just because one of them loves it or all Americans are members of NPL just because of of them is.

Congratulations! Despite my best attempts not to leave in any obvious break-ins like the words "a" and "I", you have persevered and deciphered the stupid pun. :3

Also, sorry for the comments about the intelligence of furries; after having my butt kicked at Dr. Mario by a furry/pegasister, I think I have all the proof I'll ever need that there are some really smart people in the furry community, as there are in any community. :p

Regarding the comments about National Puzzlers' League standards for crypts, they are admittedly not very well adhered to outside that community, but that's because it's not common practice to devise phrases that are purposefully hard to decipher (by avoiding common break-ins). The hardest cryptograms consist entirely of words which are the same length! O_O I provided that link to the Scott Bryce cryptograms page not because it adheres to these standards, but because it's a really convenient way to solve cryptograms (just copy and paste into the box). In any event, that puzzle would have been harder to solve had you not known to expect non-dictionary-certified proper nouns like Nintendo and Wii.

Next, you guys will be the guinea pigs for a cryptogram I just wrote. Nobody in the puzzle community has test-solved it yet. [Edit: ralphmerridew solved it in 13 minutes.]

Solving, we get k=1 l=3 m=4 n=2. By your notation, this would be 1+ 2+++ 3++++ 4++?

I think I should have made it a little bit clearer. The links only connects two rings, not all the rings that intersect the lines. Sorry about that. It would have been correct if it was how you've interpreted it.I think you can easily do, it's much simpler that this. XD

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Sat Apr 06, 2013 2:14 pm

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Re: The CipherCafe: Have a Slice of Riddles & a Cup of Code

Has anybody else ever deciphered the ciphers at the bottom of each page of the Artemis Fowl books?

Code:

18 21 2 12 6 24 26 13 8 12 15 5 22 7 19 18 8 11 6 1 1 15 22

18' 15 15 25 22 5 22 9 2 18 14 11 9 22 8 8 22 23 25 22 24 26

6 8 22 18' 5 22 7 9 18 22 23 7 12 14 26 16 22 18 7 9 22 26 15

15 2 23 18 21 21 18 24 15 7 21 12 9 2 12 6 25 2 9 22 14 12 5

18 13 20 26 15 15 7 19 22 8 11 26 24 22 8 21 9 12 14 7 19 18

8 9 26 7 19 22 9 15 12 13 20 8 22 13 7 22 13 24 22.

I've left in the apostrophes to make this a little easier for you.Also, the lines breaks are just so there's not one long line of text on the page. They may or may not correspond with spaces between the words. Good luck solving this one! HINT: The puzzle half explains itself.

I don't suppose the numbers correspond to positions in the alphabet, I started out getting RUBLEFX (rubble effects? x3)

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Wed May 15, 2013 8:06 am

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Re: The CipherCafe: Have a Slice of Riddles & a Cup of Code

It's not RUBLEFX, I'll tell you that much. Each number is a different letter - it's up to you to determine the sequence, and once you start to fill in some of the letters you'll probably get the pattern pretty easily.

hehehe.....silly bunny i read those books and deciphered them.....and the 39 clues books....

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